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| Cheirodon kiliani | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Characidae |
| Genus: | Cheirodon |
| Species: | C. kiliani |
| Binomial name | |
| Cheirodon kiliani Campos, 1982 | |
Cheirodon kiliani is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a characin, belonging to the family Characidae. This species is endemic to Chile.[2]
This species was first formally described in 1982 by the Chilean limnologist and ichthyologist Hugo Hernes Campos Cereceda with its type locality given as the Río Cau Cau in Chile.[2] Campos named this species in honour of his teacher, the German biologist Ernst Kilian, the founding director of Instituto de Zoología, Austral University of Chile, Chile.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ Manosalva, A. (2023). "Cheirodon kiliani". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2023 e.T4596A176559555. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T4596A176559555.en. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
- 1 2 Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Cheirodon". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
- ↑ Christopher Scharpf (31 August 2025). "Family CHARACIDAE: Subfamily CHEIRODONTINAE Eigenmann 1915 (Cheirodontines)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
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